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Cake day: June 10th, 2025

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  • When I feel the need to take care of myself, I try to choose one or more activities between

    • talk with friends or family via chat or phonecalls

    • go run or walk in as green a place as I can find within walking distance, bonus points if there are trees

    • tidy up a bit

    • write thoughts

    • cook something more elaborate than usual for myself

    • breathe consciously, recenter myself, or meditate











  • They’re not entirely wrong, of course, but they’re really stretching this simple stereotype into some deep difference in psychologies and assigning it to this “concept of a marketplace of idea vs. rationality and enlightenment” oversimplification.

    Honestly, as a European person who’s been through bits of both school systems, it mainly sound like an uninformed rant from an American who’s angry with the state of the US and who’s completely idealized Europe as a result – even though their only vista into EU cultures is a bunch of titles of unread articles from the part of the US media they most agree with.

    Which would be fine if they hadn’t worded what amounts to an overindulged shower thought in such a peremptory fashion.

    Basically they behaved like their own stereotype of “american psychology”, which we do have quite enough of at home thank you very much.